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    Quote Originally Posted by Lacerta View Post
    The definition of a billion changes from country to country, eg:
    1,000,000,000,000 = 10^12 = 1 billion in the UK and most EU countries, likely used elsewhere in the world in former colonies.
    1,000,000,000 = 10^9 = 1 billion in the USA and some other countries where American culture is the norm/popular.

    Please do not insult others when you yourself prove to be the one lacking in knowledge of a subject; you can check here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales for more info, kthx.
    Except that the player he is quoting specifically states that "one billion is a 10 digit number" which kind of throws your whole world metrics out the window.



    Quote Originally Posted by Wolfhammer View Post
    No it isn't hahahahaha

    1 billion is 1,000,000,000 A 10 digit number

    Guess again
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    NA, Japan, and Australia all use "." for decimals.
    EU and SA use "," for decimals.

    Calling someone stupid because they don't use your system is... well... stupid.

    Edit: Oh, looks like wolfhammer uses "," too. He just doesn't know how to read.
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    Last edited by Ruminate; 10-01-2013 at 10:48 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wolfhammer View Post
    Not too sharp at maths eh? lol

    - Total Frozen Gil: Approximately 367,700 million Gil

    Not even close to 1 billion.....

    On topic - That's a huge sum of money.... May I suggest its ploughed into a casino in Costa Del Sol or similar location? I'd love to have a gamble now and again..
    What is the Japanese stance on gambling by the way??
    LOL funniest thing I've read on the forums today... The irony behind this statement...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sasse View Post
    367 BILLION gil.
    That's a lot of dough. Way to go, STFU!
    Quote Originally Posted by Wolfhammer View Post
    Not too sharp at maths eh? lol

    - Total Frozen Gil: Approximately 367,700 million Gil
    Not even close to 1 billion.....
    Quote Originally Posted by Heartthrob View Post
    Not too good at readin huh? 367,700 million is 367.7 billion
    Quote Originally Posted by Wolfhammer View Post
    No it isn't hahahahaha

    1 billion is 1,000,000,000 A 10 digit number

    Guess again
    1million = 1,000,000
    367,700 million = 367,700,000,000
    367,700,000,000 = 367.7 billion...
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    Last edited by MashiraSahara; 10-01-2013 at 10:56 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wolfhammer View Post
    Not too sharp at maths eh? lol

    - Total Frozen Gil: Approximately 367,700 million Gil

    Not even close to 1 billion.....

    On topic - That's a huge sum of money.... May I suggest its ploughed into a casino in Costa Del Sol or similar location? I'd love to have a gamble now and again..
    What is the Japanese stance on gambling by the way??
    Quote Originally Posted by Wolfhammer View Post
    No it isn't hahahahaha

    1 billion is 1,000,000,000 A 10 digit number

    Guess again
    I usually never laugh when reading forums, perhaps because I only come onto forums when I'm grumpy, but this put a big smile on my face. I would start with learning how to count zeros before even considering gambling your money away; you won't even know if you ever get duped.

    Quote Originally Posted by Disturbed View Post
    Sigh, go back to middle school.
    It's not even middle school. Remember doing Mountain Math in 3rd grade?

    1,000 Million = 1 Billion, therefore 367,700 million = 367.7 billion = 367,700,000,000 = 12 digits, 12 digits > 10 digits.
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    Last edited by Leafcore; 10-01-2013 at 11:05 PM.

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    Haha. Sorry, I just had to :P

    I have to admit, as an EU player I was thrown off at first by the JP numeric conventions.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wolfhammer View Post
    Not too sharp at maths eh? lol

    - Total Frozen Gil: Approximately 367,700 million Gil

    Not even close to 1 billion.....

    On topic - That's a huge sum of money.... May I suggest its ploughed into a casino in Costa Del Sol or similar location? I'd love to have a gamble now and again..
    What is the Japanese stance on gambling by the way??
    Ummm, what? 367,700 million gill is 367.7 billion gil.

    Here, I'll break it down. Because I enjoy doing that.
    A million has 6 zeros - 1,000,000
    367,700 million would then have six zeroes added to the end of it - 367,700,000,000.
    I think you can take it from here.

    Oh come on, how come this maths became the focus?! I was actually trying to talk about how some "leftover" dirty gil will remain. I mean I know most would be confiscated but surely "some" remains in circulation..
    Sorry! I have an inability to refrain from responding to stupidity. I'll be good now!
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    Last edited by Amenian; 10-02-2013 at 02:01 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Amenian View Post
    Ummm, what? 367,700 million gill is 367.7 billion gil.

    Here, I'll break it down. Because I enjoy doing that.
    A million has 6 zeros - 1,000,000
    367,700 million would then have six zeroes added to the end of it - 367,700,000,000.
    I think you can take it from here.
    The definition of a billion changes from country to country, eg:
    1,000,000,000,000 = 10^12 = 1 billion in the UK and most EU countries, likely used elsewhere in the world in former colonies.
    1,000,000,000 = 10^9 = 1 billion in the USA and some other countries where American culture is the norm/popular.

    Please do not insult others when you yourself prove to be the one lacking in knowledge of a subject; you can check here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales for more info, kthx.

    On topic: I've seen the same amount of gil sellers on my server... doesn't seem to have made an impact really, but I guess we'll just have to see! At least huge amounts of illegal gil was taken out of circulation.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lacerta View Post
    The definition of a billion changes from country to country, eg:
    1,000,000,000,000 = 10^12 = 1 billion in the UK and most EU countries, likely used elsewhere in the world in former colonies.
    1,000,000,000 = 10^9 = 1 billion in the USA and some other countries where American culture is the norm/popular.

    Please do not insult others when you yourself prove to be the one lacking in knowledge of a subject; you can check here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales for more info, kthx.
    While I didn't know that, my reply still holds true because of the context of the quoted post I was responding to. So, yeah, how about a little less need to preen your intellectual feathers there buddy.
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